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The Norton Guide To AI-Aware Teaching & Using AI As Provocative Pedagogy
Most writing about AI in education treats it as a problem to manage.
 • Marc Watkins
How An AI Detector Made Me Trust People Less
A week with Pangram's new Chrome extension changed how I read social media — and not for the better.
 • Marc Watkins
Grievance Farming Comes for Teaching Centers
Paul Schofield’s recent essay in the Chronicle was deeply critical of college teaching and learning centers and the staff that runs them.
 • Marc Watkins
What Happens When Students Stop Believing Their Work Matters
A maxim I’ve oft repeated for our AI era is that if a task can be automated, then it will.
 • Marc Watkins
Who (Or What) Filled Out Your Course Evaluation?
Canvas will introduce its first AI agent directly into the LMS later this year, arriving in a chaotic landscape where few institutions have considered…
 • Marc Watkins
OpenAI's Education Pitch Has a Free Version Problem
OpenAI wants universities to invest in educational AI at scale, but students already live inside a free AI ecosystem that universities cannot control.
 • Marc Watkins
Einstein & The Rise of Nuisance Tech
AI may be one of the most transformative innovations of our lifetime, but not when it is treated as spam.
 • Marc Watkins
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